This setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis is large in scale and features compelling melodies and harmonies moments of high drama and at the same time sensitive handling of the words. This is Wesley at his most masterful.Composer and Organist Samuel Sebastian Wesley is the grandson of Charles Wesley founder of Methodism and son of composer Samuel Wesley. He composed music almost entirely for the Anglican church and his works are frequently performed there.By most accounts Wesley was a difficult man who in his determination to improve the quality of country cathedral music often won enemies and lost support. After two unhappy appointments as cathedralOrganist Wesley accepted a position at the Leeds Parish Church which had a new building a new Organ and a vicar determined to create a choir for full Choral services. It was in these congenial circumstances that Wesley first presented this significant and influential Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis.

Praise the Lord O My Soul is a long anthem for Chorus SATB with solo lines.Composer and Organist Samuel Sebastian Wesley is the grandson of Charles Wesley founder of Methodism and son of composer Samuel Wesley. He composed music almost entirely for the Anglican church and his works are frequently performed there.

Two delightful Organ pieces by Samuel Wesley an instrumental figure in introducing the English musical community to the works of J.S. Bach and father to the much-loved hymn composer Samuel Sebastian Wesley.Suitable for Grade 5 standard.

This edition by Richard Lyne retains the original Latin text and is based on the fair copy that Wesley left to his son Samuel Sebastian Wesley.

Fred Bock's setting of this famous Samuel Wesley tune was a classic from the start. It has been newly released as part of Fred's “Classics” series. A tasty keyboard accompaniment as only Fred could write supports awarm and rich choral part. Useful as an anthem offertory or service piece it is easy to medium in learning difficulty. Also available in SAB 2-Part and SSA.

This anthem by Samuel Wesley one of the most important composers of the classical period in England takes the text from verse 2 of Te Deum Laudamus from the Anglican service of Morning Prayer. The musical treatment is typical eighteenth century English polyphony.

Edited by John Marsh. It is possible that these two motets were composed for the Portuguese Embassy Chapel London where Wesley was an assistant under the organist Vincent Novello.

Edited by John Marsh. It is possible that this motet was composed for the Portuguese Embassy Chapel London where Wesley was an assistant under the organist Vincent Novello.

Samuel Sebastian Wesley: Jubilate in E. This edition celebrates the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth. The distinguished Wesley scholar Peter Horton has worked from the original folio edition of 1844. It displays Wesley's adventurous harmony and use of wide-ranging keys in a similar way to the Evening Canticles in E.

Brunelle Cathedral Series. Par WESLEY SAMUEL SEBASTIAN. / Feuillet / Choeur Mixte et Orgue